Globus Toolkit Downloads

In production settings, users should continue to use one of the two officially
supported stable releases (GT 6.0 is highly recommended.) More information on stable and development releases can be found
at http://www.globus.org/toolkit/versioning.html

Stable Releases

The Globus Alliance offers support for the last two stable releases. Support
is provided on a best effort basis. Since no new features can be added once
a stable release is cut, code changes on stable releases are limited to bug
fixes.

Note: Stable distributions have an even minor version
number (for example, 5.0.3).

Development Releases

Releases in the development series are used to publish new features in a timely
manner. Unlike stable releases, feature additions
and changes to public interfaces can happen between incremental versions of
development releases.

GT development releases are intended for use by early adopters: users who
are willing to tolerate rough edges in order to use and provide feedback on
new features. A major advantage of being an early adopter is that you can help
shape feature development to a greater degree than is possible after a final
release. However, development distributions may behave in unpredictable ways
and should not be used in production settings.

Note: Development distributions have an odd minor
version number (for example 5.1.2).

Third Party Releases

We encourage external entities and developers to create Third Party Releases using Globus Toolkit components. We do not control development of third party releases. External developers may modify any aspect of the software and these changes may be effected at any time without prior notice from the developer. While third party releases are usually (but not always) based on a recent stable Globus release, we cannot make any recommendations on the appropriateness of using third party releases in production environments.

Third party releases may be supported by their respective developers. We do not provide support for third party releases but our developers may contribute to support discussions where possible. From time to time we will review third party releases and assess our ability to support these directly.